Category Archives: Education/Homeschool

Birds and bees—what a wonderful topic. Birds are delightful to watch and listen to. And bees are extremely useful to the gardener for they pollinate plants. Without this help of the bee, we would all be very hungry!

Teaching children about bees can help them understand why bees are necessary, as well as how to deal with bees in order to avoid stings, among other things.

“The Prelinger Library is a private research library open to the public, located in downtown San Francisco. Its collections encompass some 50,000 books, periodical volumes and printed ephemera. The Prelinger Library is currently curating this online collection of public domain materials in key subject areas.”

Some people would have you believe —falsely of course— that man began life in caves, were brutish and lacked intelligence. Perhaps, that is the ancestral history of some people.

Others of us, however, believe what has reached us from prophetic sources.

An example is ibn Kathir ad-Damishqi (d. 774 H). In the chapter, “The Story of Adam and Eve” from the book Stories of the Prophet ibn Kathir writes:

“The first of their [Adam and Eve] clothing was from sheep’s wool. He [Adam] separated them and then spun them. After wards, he wove a Jubbah for himself and a dress and headscarf for Eve” (p. 44).

We learn that Adam (alayhe salaam) wore a Jubbah, which is a long outer garment with wide sleeves.

We also learn that Adam:

— needed clothing for himself and his wife
— took responsibility for clothing for his family
— used the wool from sheep
— processed, spun, and wove the sheep’s wool
— wove a woolen loose garment for himself and his wife
— was the first human to produce cloth from sheep wool

My dears, non-Muslim historians, weavers, crocheters/knitters, etc., speculate on the origins of wool for garments, some even connecting imaginary dots to the ancient Romans or Greeks. They speak about things they have no knowledge of.

Real knowledge —authentic, true, accurate knowledge— comes from Islam. Many a folk within the Muslim collective possess a great breadth and depth of knowledge in numerous subject areas, some of which reaches far back into human history.

The website Homeschool Freebie of the Day (one of my favorite sites) has the following FREE Kindle book available on Amazon for free thru Thursday evening:

BOYS AND MANNERS is an exclusive THREE PART Kindle-format ebook compilation containing a wealth of tools & ideas to help guide you in your ongoing quest to instill better manners into your Boys… and at the same time help them understand the true reasons why “good manners” are so vitally important, right now and for their future.

PART One: 104 Important Things Your Boys Need to Know: A Guide to Boys and Manners
PART Two: Teaching Boys Manners: Parents Share Their BestTips and Strategies
PART Three: The Rules of the House: Parents Share Their Most Important Household Manners

To get this KINDLE FORMAT resource, go TO THIS PAGE on Amazon.com and order your free copy (it is regularly $2.99, but is FREE through Thursday evening only).

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Read Boys and Manners or any other Kindle book on your computer. Once at the Amazon site, type in “kindle reader for PC” or “kindle reader for Mac” to access the downloadable software to read Kindle ebooks!

The book “Prayers for Muslim Children” has been a favorite in our family for a while.

We love it because of three main reasons: its content, its simplicity, and its educational possibilities.

Content
“Prayers for Muslim Children” is a book of actions to take and supplications to make. It is comprised of hadith on various Islamic etiquette.

Simplicity
An important aspect is that the language is easy for children to read, understand, and memorize. There are beautifully colored calligraphy, large text size, supplications written in both Arabic and English, and hadith is listed at the bottom of the page.

I like other things too such as the lack of images with souls.

Educational
“Prayers” is great to read to children during bedtime or anytime. It’s excellent for role-playing the actions stated in the book as a method of instruction. It’s also good for Arabic reading and writing practice, and for copy-work with a fun multi-colored lead pencil to imitate the book’s multi-colored font. And this can lead to discussions on Islamic art!

Additionally, each individual page can become an entire lesson built around deeper religious teachings such as why for example we say “Insha’Allah” or “La ilaha ill-Allah” or tawheed. Older children can research the hadith in detail, create biographies of its narrator(s), discover the situation that lead to the need for the hadith, etc.

This book is excellent for new Muslims to teach their children, and to learn from themselves as well—another benefit.

I really love “Prayers for Muslim Children” and I am happy to share such an excellent resource with you.

¸.♥´Mom

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All of the opinions stated above are my own. I do not receive compensation in any form from any person, business, organization, or publisher for doing this review.

“Being Dutiful to One’s Parents”

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Here is a little supplication/prayer/dua that is easy to teach to little ones, especially if they observe you saying it. Have them repeat after you as soon as they are able to mumble words. Then kiss them and tuck them in tight.

For older children who can read, help them to memorize it. Print this dua for sleep printable[pdf]. Attach to a wall near the bed so the children can see it and read it before going to sleep.

Bismikal-lahumma amutu wa ahya
‘In Your name O Allaah, I live and die (expire and return to life).’

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I’m so glad you love to read. And if you’re like me, you love to read the same book more than once.

The problem I have always had with that, is that if the book belongs to the library, I usually forget the title and author once I’ve turned the book in. Sometimes I will remember. But most of the time I won’t.

I made this handy little printable for that problem. I now have a place to write down the title of the library item, who wrote it, and what it was I liked. I keep this little form in my personal binder. So far it’s working wonderfully.

Because I love to share whatever helps me, this form can be printed for your personal use:

TV - Yes or No? [PDF] The Permanent Committee of Scholars have stated (in a fatwa) that the television is an instrument that in and of itself has no ruling regarding it; rather, the ruling applies to its use -- Dr. Saleh as-Saleh (rahimahullaah)